The last may not have been heard about the recent media report that the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON’s) Managing Director, Ahmed Kuru, was a guest of officials of Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) over sales of recovered assets from bank debtors.
The story, which immediately went viral was described as not only misleading but false by the official who claimed that he was with the AMCON boss at the EFCC for what he described as ‘over stretched’ meeting . He accused the anti-graft body’s officials of deliberately feeding the media with wrong information.
Said he,” It is the EFCC staff that feed platforms like SaharaReporters, that broke the story, ”
“The top AMCON official went on to explain thus, “The Duke, SaharaReporters reported in a hurry. They translated an overstretched meeting to arrest and detention. I was at the meeting too, my EDs and some other senior staff were there too that Wednesday and we all left late that night. I called Sowore to also explain this. He, however, told me that his source at the EFCC told him, he sighted my MD at EFCC.”
The source who prefer anonymity said further that,”That day Sowore himself was at the Federal High Court for Mazi Nnamdi Kanu case that day and I asked him if it would be right to report that his being in court translate that he was facing judgement for his matter with the FG?”
The top AMCON official stated further that a situation where “EFCC staff is calling Sowore to inform him that AMCON MD was in their office shows you how unguarded and porous the place is. It’s sad,” .
When reminded that there might be no smoke without fire and that this was how the allegation that led to the fall of the former EFCC boss Ibrahim Magu started, he said, ” Not at all. I was at the EFCC with him in the company of AMCON Executive Directors and senior staff. We want to pass on that. What they did was over syllabus. The Presidency will address it, ” he rounded off.
